What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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